Looking for Something Similar in US

[dynomite24]

I need to drill an access hole in a floor and then be able to plug it up. I found this online: http://www.alertelectrical.com/prod/1083/solid-board-cutter-set but I need to find an equivalent in the US.

Anyone have any recommendations?

I just need it to open a hole in a plywood subfloor and then be able to fix the hole.

Thanks

 

[r896neo]

howdy partner! Unfortunately this site is frequented by 99% british and irish users and so whilst board cutters are easy to get here we won't really be able to help you with where to get one in the states. Sorry.

That said though there are a few statesiders who pass through now and then so maybe they could help.

 

[TicklyT]

I would just cut a square or rectangular hole with a jigsaw. fix some timbers overlapping the edge of the hole to the underside of the ply by screwing through the floor, then drop the cut out piece back in the hole when you've finished.

 

[Paul Barker]

that is excellent advice.

OP although I have the very device you mention together with the plastic parts that drop into the hole afterwards, in the UK a lot of the houses we work in have tongue and grooved floor boards, and where our work takes place usually the relevant boards have been up before, so we take up the same boards again making no difference ot the structure than exists..

So the tool is seldome used.

When we don;'t have this type of follr we have woodchip which after 10 years is as supportive of the human foot as a wheetabix which we eat for breakfast and any holes made in this very poor material needs some serious shoring up. Compounding the structural problems with wheetabix house building is the fact that the centres between joists are wider than in the days of planking aswell.

You are lucky that your floors are made of plye.